ABOUT MATUS GAJDOS - BLACKOUT AGENCY

Blackout Agency is a subsidiary of Bajkonur company that was founded in 2000 and focuses its activities on supporting of Slovak artists and their presentation to local and foreign audience.

We encuorage theese supporting activities within our own internet magazine Bajkonur which has over 300 thousand entries a month. There can be found a separate section for artists who want to go public and present their outputs to the world. According to fact, that internet coverage in Slovakia is not as reasonable as this music would deserve, we started to publish a magazine of our own named Partypeople but the publishing costs were too high, therefore we had to stop publishing it after six months. However, we created separate sections in magazines for teenagers Kamarat and Maxisuper, Inspire and czech Xmag.

One of our activities is music production. Over 4 years we compile music content for Orange Slovensko, a.s. and Slovak Telecom CDs. At the upcoming time, we plan to set off our own label called Blackout of which main project would be debut album of Slovak duo Soundspeakers and Hip hop project Rendezska-Sk. The audience´s reaction to them was highly positive on such a big events like Summer of Love (CZ), Pohoda (SK) and Hodokvas (SK) festivals.

The last but the most important activity of Blackout Agency is organising concerts where the artists are given a chance to present themselves. Since the very first event, our decision to support young artists was proved right by the counted number of attending visitors which was high. We cooperate with similar agencies from Japan, U.S., Singapore and whole Europe, as well (see more in our portfolio), plus, we support appearence of our artists abroad (Czech Republic, Germany, Poland etc.).

As we want to prepare our events better and even more interesting we keep searching for ways how to solve not very optimistic matter of money in Slovakia. This is why we are looking for new suitable partners who would help us to organise our projects which are often financially abmitious. In the past it was the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic, British Council, French Institute and commercial brands Dexia Bank, Orange, Red Bull, Tommy Hilfiger, who supported us.

Considering the fact, that this event (May 1) came out of a post-comunist holiday that specially touched the four counties of Visegrad we turn our request to you…

Past events:

Bajkonur the first

>>>Date: 31.10.2000>>>Location: Uclub>>>City: Bratislava/SK>>>600 peoples>>>Headliner: Pom Ppui/FrToky/Sk, Svetlux/SK

Bajkonur The Second

>>>Date: 12.04.2001>>>Location: Studio koliba >>>City: Bratislava/SK>>>2000 peoples>>>Headliner: Scan X(F communications/Fr), Kaisersoze(Brno/CZ), Tvyks(Eastbase/CZ), IM Cyber(Eastbase/CZ)

Moze byt 2001

>>>Date: 04.07.2001>>>Location: Boat>>>City: Bratislava/SK>>>600peoples>>>Headliners: Nika 77(Praha-CZ)Leo Lycra(Brno-CZ)

Saturation 1

>>>Date: 28.08.2001>>>Location: Duna club>>>City: Bratislava/SK>>>800 peoples>>>Headliners: Radan Mach(Cz), Javas(Cz), Gabana, Benco, Svetlux,

I seek you 2001

>>>Date: 10.10.2001>>>Location: Duna>>>City: Bratislava/SK>>>300peoples>>>Headliners: Paul Hawk(Sound44-CZ)

Saturation 2

>>>Date: 31.10.2001>>>Location: Elam >>>City: Bratislava/SK>>>1500 peoples>>>Headliner: Radan Mach(Brno/CZ)

Saturation 3

>>>Date: 16.4.2002>>>Location: B52>>>City: Bratislava/SK>>>1500 peoples>>>Headliner: Toni Rions(Cocoon/Spain), Alex Dean(London-UK), DJ Boss

Los Angeles clubbing

>>>Date: 15.03.2002>>>Location: Vrtula>>>City: Považská Bystrica/SK>>>600 peoples>>>Headliners: DJ Vitamin D/USADJ Lumiere(Beeswax/CZ)DJ Martin Haberland(Košice/SK)

Frankfurt clubbing

>>>Date: 30.03.2002>>>Location: Elam club >>>City: Bratislava/SK>>>800 peoples>>>Headliners:

F.Lorber(Cocoon/De)D.Digger(Cocoon/De)Igor Pataky(Lunar/CZ)Boss(Dole Gate/SK)Poprednny(Standa/SK)

Paris clubbing

>>>Date: 06.04.2002>>>Location: Extreme club>>>City: Prievidza/SK>>>700 peoples>>>Headliners:

Jori Hulkkonen(F communications/France)Tvyks(Praha)DJ Mishek(Zilina/SK)Koki(Bajkonur/SK)

Stockholm clubbing

>>>Date: 13.4.2002>>>Location: Arzenal >>>City: Košice/SK>>>750 peoples>>>Headliners: Christian Smith(Tronic Music/Sweden)Lucca(Mersey/CZ)Orbith(Bassline/CZ)

Tokyo clubbing

>>>Date: 26.4.2002>>>Location: Elektraren>>>City: Poprad/SK>>>550 peoples>>>Headliners: Takyu Ishino(/Japan)

London clubbing

>>>Date: 19.4.2002>>>Location: NO3>>>City: Nove Zamky/SK>>>450peoples>>>Headliners: Terey Francis(Fabric club/London-UK)

Cape Town clubbing

>>>Date: 04.05.2002>>>Location: Stara PEkaren>>>City: Nitra/SK>>>400peoples>>>Headliners: Nubian(Cape Town-JAR)

Singapore clubbing

>>>Date: 21.09.2002>>>Location: Arena club>>>City: Humenne/SK>>>700peoples>>>Headliners: DJ Aldrin(Club Zouk/Singapore)Dys Martin(Eastbase/CZ)

San Francisco clubbing

>>>Date: 05.10.2002>>>Location: Extreme club>>>City: Prievizda/SK>>>700peoples>>>Headliners: DJ Tony(Tango records/San Francisco/USA)DJ Vik(Praha/CZ)

Moscow clubbing

>>>Date: 19.10.2002>>>Location: Stara Tehelna>>>City: Levice/SK>>>700peoples>>>Headliners:Vasily(Moscow/Rusko)NIka77(Praha/CZ)

Glasgow clubbing

>>>Date: 26.10.2002>>>Location: Elam club>>>City: Bratislava/SK>>>700peoples>>>Headliners: Percy X(Slam/Scotland)Glenn Gibbons(Soma/Uk)Pat Heart(FR)

Sydney clubbing

>>>Date: 09.11.2002>>>Location: Alpia club>>>City: Martin/SK>>>600peoples>>>Headliners: Simon Digby(Sydney/Australia)Toky(Standa/SK)

Amsterdam clubbing

>>>Date: 16.11.2002>>>Location: Amsterdam pub>>>City: Košice/SK>>>800peoples>>>Headliners: Alfredi(Chemistry)Rafael(Holland)Rai(Roxy/Cz)

Berlin clubbing

>>>Date: 23.11.2002>>>Location: Metroklub>>>City: Šaľa/SK>>>700peoples>>>Headliners: DJ Dry(Tresor label/Berlin-De)Benno Blome(Tresor/De)DJ Dalo(Standa/SK)

HRAD 2002

>>>Date: 28.8.2002>>>Location: Castle>>>City: Beckov>>>Real: 600 peoples>>>Headliner: DJ Trava(Cz)DJ Boss(Dole Gate/Sk)Rolo Kadela

Bajkonur clubbing 2003

>>>Date: 06.06.2003>>>Location: Terminal>>>City: Bratislava/SK>>>650peoples

>>>Headliners

HRAD 2003

>>>Date:15.08.2003>>> Location: Castle>>> City: Beckov>>>1800 peoples>>> Headliners: Dave Navarro(De)Michael Burian(Cz)

HRAD 2004

>>>Date: 05.08.2004>>>Location: Castle>>>City: Beckov>>>3000 peoples>>> Headliners: MC Fly(Fr)Inigo Kennedy(UK) DJ Orbith

Prvy maj 2004

>>>Date: 01.05.2004>>>Location: Babylon/Duna/Ucko>>>City: Bratislava/SK>>>750peoples>>>Headliners: Keaton(Renegade Hardware/London-UK)DJ Komplex(Paris-FR)DJ Koogi(Shadowbox/CZ) and more 37 artists !!!

Prvy maj 2005

>>>Date: 30.04.2005>>>Location: Babylon/Duna/Ucko/Unique/Spojka>>>City: Bratislava/SK>>>1100peoples>>>Headliners:

Scan X (F-Com), Loxy(Renegade Hardware/UK) and more 50 artists !!!

Prvy maj 2006

>>>Date: 29.04.2006>>>Location: Babylon/Duna/Subclub/Unique/Nu Spirit>>>City: Bratislava/SK>>>1300peoples>>>Headliners: Kodh (ITF/FR), Ink(Renegade Hardware/UK), MC Santana(CZ), Philip TBC(CZ) and more 60 artists !!!

AXE Click Party

>>>Date: 29.04.2006>>>Location: Charlie club>>>City: Bratislava/SK>>>400peoples>>>Headliners: Tvyks (CZ), Carlo(Fun Radio/SK), Koki & Mathew K.(SK)

Prvy maj 2007

>>>Date: 28.04.2007>>>Location: Bernolak/Nassau/Subclub/Nu Spirit>>>City: Bratislava/SK>>>1400peoples>>>Headliners: Netik (DMC World champion 06/FR), Kero One(USA), Craggz&Parallel Forces(Valve Recordings/UK), Jeroen Liebregts(Audioassault/NL), Soulsource(CH), Sayko(CZ) and more 60 artists !!!

AXE Click Party

>>>Date: 19.4.2007>>>Location: Charlie club>>>City: Bratislava/SK>>>700peoples>>>Headliners:Street Dance Academy(SK)